Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

New Haven, Connecticut

The home of the celebrated author of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, in 1852 and the world was never the same.  Abolition became possible and emancipation later became the law.  Today, the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford tells her remarkable story and preserves the home where she spent the final years of her life.

Stowe also lived in Brunswick, Maine where she wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin and sheltered John Andrew Jackson, a fugitive slave from South Carolina.  Today, the building is owned by Bowdoin College and houses faculty offices, as well as “Harriet’s Writing Room,” a public space commemorating Stowe’s legacy and is a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom site.